Recreational Effects of Marijuana and Alcohol: Some Descriptive Dimensions

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Abstract
Effect-orientation and relaxation are singled out as potentially useful concepts for social research on the recreational effects of marijuana and alcohol. Factor analyses of questionnaire data from a large study of marijuana and alcohol users reveal that these concepts coherently describe independent dimensions of recreational effects. Relaxation is generally characteristic of the effects of both drugs, but the effect-orientations of marijuana and alcohol differ considerably. The effects of both drugs change predictably along the two dimensions as drug-using situations change. These findings are related to important problems for further social research on recreational drug effects.